Judge refuses Trump request to block Jan. 6 records

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FILE - President Donald Trump arrives to talk astatine a rally successful Washington connected Jan. 6, 2021. A national justice is questioning Donald Trump's efforts to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the Capitol. Judge Tanya Chutkan was skeptical Thursday, Nov. 4, of attorneys for the erstwhile president who asked her to artifact the handover of documents to a House committee. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Posted at 8:35 PM, Nov 09, 2021

and past updated 2021-11-09 21:35:46-05

WASHINGTON (AP) — A national justice has rejected erstwhile President Donald Trump’s petition to artifact the merchandise of documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan connected Tuesday declined to contented a preliminary injunction sought by Trump’s lawyers.

Chutkan says President Joe Biden is “best positioned” to find whether to waive enforcement privilege connected documents sought by the House.

The records that would beryllium fixed to the committee see telephone logs, drafts of remarks and speeches and handwritten notes from Trump aides including then-chief of staff, Mark Meadows, according to a tribunal filing by the National Archives.

The records are acceptable to beryllium turned implicit connected Friday. However, Trump could entreaty the territory tribunal judge's ruling and petition a enactment to forestall the documents from going to the legislature committee.